US Patent Issued to Utilization of Carbon Dioxide Institute on May 20 for "Recombinant of Hydrogenophilus bacterium producing lactic acid" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,305,199, issued on May 20, was assigned to Utilization of Carbon Dioxide Institute Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Recombinant of Hydrogenophilus bacterium producing lactic acid" was invented by Hideaki Yukawa (Tokyo) and Naoto Ohtani (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "When lactate dehydrogenase gene and/or malate/lactate dehydrogenase gene is/are introduced into a Hydrogenophilus bacterium as well as one or more of the three lactic acid-utilizing enzyme genes on the genome of the Hydrogenophilus bacterium is/are disrupted, lactic acid-producing ability is remarkably increased. The inventors of the present invention have identified the three lacti...